A Tardis is not necessary to travel through time if you believe the individuals who say that they have seen the future.

Some claim to have visited the past or are visitors from the not-too-distant future, including a character known only as 'Noah' who this week made national news when he said he had returned from the year 2030.

He is not the only one who believes that time travel is possible. Many people over the years have told stories of their adventures and experiences journeying through time, either by accident or design, reports the Mirror.

So, with this in mind, we have compiled a few of the most famous claims made by those who have been to the future or travelled back to the past.

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Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain

Travelled from: 1901

Travelled to: 1792

Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain claim they shared an experience of slipping over two hundred years into the past while visiting the Palace of Versialles on August 10, 1901.

They say they crossed a bridge and wandered through the palace grounds, to the Petit Trianon.

There, Moberly believes she saw Queen of France, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) and both of the women say they stumbled across the Comte de Vaudreuil, a French nobleman at the court of King Louis XVI of France.

Moberly claimed to have seen Marie-Antoinette when she and a friend travelled through time (Image: Hulton Archive)

They were then directed to the entrance of the palace where they joined a party of other visitors for the tour.

Afterwards, the two women returned to Jourdain's apartment.

When they returned to recreate their steps, they realised the bridge had disappeared.

They later published an account of their experiences in a book called An Adventure.

John Titor

Travelled from: 2036

Travelled to: 1975, 2000

The name John Titor was used on several online bulletin boards between 2000 and 2001.

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After turbulence almost caused him to crash, Goddard finally managed to regain control of his plane.

But when he looked down at the airfield below him, he saw it was fully functional, with new hangars, strange looking planes and mechanics in blue uniforms instead of the brown uniforms currently worn in 1935.

When Goddard returned from the flight, he told some of his colleagues, but they didn't believe him.

Four years later, the RAF developed and began using the exact planes he claimed he'd seen in his 'time travel experience', and they switched their uniforms from brown to blue.

Goddard eventually wrote down his experience in the 1960s, but there's still no way to verify what he said was true.

William Taylor

Travelled from 2005

Travelled to 3000, 8973

William Taylor claims to have worked for the British government over a decade ago - and said he was sent to the year 8973 in a secret time machine.

In an interview with Apex TV, he claimed that what he found there was a "utopia" - with no disease, death or crime.

Humans were gone, and replaced with human-robot hybrids, but Earth still existed, one of many planets these beings had colonised in a bid to find more space.

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He insists that the government has a wealth of advanced technologies that are being kept secret from the public, but admits that some of it will be released to the general public by 2028 - just a decade from now.

Taylor also claims that there have been attempts to move the whole world onto another timeline, with technology discovered in crashed extra terrestrial crafts which have landed on Earth.

J Bernard Hutton and Joachim Brandt

Travelled from: 1932

Travelled to: 1943

In 1932, two German newspaper reporters travelled to the Hamburg-Altona Shipyards to research a story.

Their trip was largely uneventful, that is until bombs starting dropping from above in the middle of the tour of the yard.

Both Hutton and Brandt recalled the bombs dropping all around them, before they made a panicked escape in a vehicle.

The ruins of Hamburg after Allied bombing in July 1943 (Image: Hulton Archive)

The pair had taken pictures of the scene, but when they developed them, the images showed nothing unusual, appearing to disprove the men's claims.

The story was dismissed by the editor of the paper and the incident was forgotten.

But 11 years later, in 1943, Hutton opened a newspaper to see a successful air raid had been carried out by the Royal Air Force squadron on the shipyard.

The scene of the destruction, he claimed, was exactly as he'd described it to be in 1932.